On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 05:07:47PM +0200, Stephan A. Rickauer wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 08:35:10AM +1000, David Gwynne wrote: >> >> On 27/09/2007, at 8:06 PM, Stephan A. Rickauer wrote: >> >>> A new server shippped by a local vendor fails to boot bsd.mp, with and >>> without acpi enabled (amd64, 4.2). Without acpi it will reboot directly >>> after mounting the root device. With acpi enabled it will hang with >>> "arc0: unable to query firmware for sensor info". Uniprocessor kernels >>> would boot fine, both acpi and without. Pls. find dmesgs of those as well >>> as more info below. >> >> I'm pretty sure that message from arc is a result of interrupts not being >> hooked up correctly. >> >> also, arc doesnt hang after printing that message, it gives control back >> to the rest of the kernel. presumably the kernel is hanging while waiting >> for io on the disk to work, but of course, the disk is on arc and >> interrupts arent wired up to it correctly so just blocks. >> >> dlg > > I see. However, only bsd.mp hangs, bsd boots fine. Is there anything else I > can try? > > Stephan
enable acpi so the interrupt routing in the MP case can be fixed up, broken MP BIOSes are sadly reasonably common now.
